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Trying to play Darksiders 2 Deathinitive edition, but it seems it's a buggy mess. I can't even get through the tutorial, I'm stuck trying to climb a wall.
FFS I thought remasters were supposed to be superior versions of any given game but this is just ass. And what are the differences, you ask? Oh I guess they fixed enemy auto lock on so you don't have to spam dodge.
Not only is this game uglier than what my PS3 version on a 55" sony tv from 2010, it's overall a deathinitively WORSE experience.

I'll figure it out tomorrow.
 
Managed to get a couple hours in with the Nioh3 demo this morning. Quite conflicted about it. Thought it was funny online features are forced on in the Demo and then I never saw them used.

The most obvious thing was the poor performance. During the tutorial it was just a few moments of slow motion, but the second I hit the open world it was permanent - no performance improvement from changing all the graphics to minimum, even staring directly at the floor didn't help. Pressing Start/Select, I would have to wait upwards of 30+ seconds for the Menu/Map to appear (the game was not at all frozen: I was able to walk around and aggro an enemy, albeit at like 15-20fps). I was sort of expecting this before the fact because Rise of the Ronin fucking kills my computer, but I was admittedly a little surprised once I was in-game considering it still basically looks like Nioh2. Combat feels much more "casual friendly" because it's very low-risk, slow, and maybe even too simplified at the start.

The swapping between Samurai/Ninja isn't horrible (I do wanna know where Onmyo Mage has gone, though). I don't exactly love it, but I think it's an interesting choice to replace Shiftling-related stuff on Right Trigger, and the fact it swaps to an entirely different set of gear made me raise an eyebrow. Initially I was worried that Stances and a couple other things might have been removed, but they're just not unlocked from the start for Samurai is all. Ninja does seem a little half-baked considering it doesn't get Stances and the Mist thing that replaces Samurai's Ki Pulsing doesn't really appeal, feels way less useful than just Ki Pulsing and immediately dodging/blocking. It doesn't create a great first impression when I'm coming from having started another Nioh2 run a few days ago, because in the very early game of Nioh2 you get Proficiency Points on top of Samurai/Ninja/Mage locks to unlock basic-ass skills very quickly, and you get generic consumable Ninja and Onmyo items for combat (which also give Ninja/Mage proficiency points) right from the get-go. In comparison, it makes the combat in Nioh3's tutorial feel simplified, slow, and low on options. The tutorial boss fight with the Red Army General puts that on display for me, because goddamn fighting him feels really boring and clunky compared to Gozuki and Mezuki in Nioh2.

I would very much like to see more of it to get a better impression... but I can't fuckin' run it at a playable speed anyway, so it's a moot point.
Back to trying to actually beat Nioh2's story for once, I guess.
 
PetiteFeet said:
Trying to play Darksiders 2 Deathinitive edition, but it seems it's a buggy mess. I can't even get through the tutorial, I'm stuck trying to climb a wall.
FFS I thought remasters were supposed to be superior versions of any given game but this is just ass. And what are the differences, you ask? Oh I guess they fixed enemy auto lock on so you don't have to spam dodge.
Not only is this game uglier than what my PS3 version on a 55" sony tv from 2010, it's overall a deathinitively WORSE experience.

I'll figure it out tomorrow.
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What framerate was the game running at? I had issues with climbing until I limited it to 120fps.
 
Did everything in the demo for Nioh 3. I legit hate the direction Nioh went in. There's just so much shit in it that doesn't need to be there. Souls cores, different fighting styles, more bloat mechanics. Nioh 1 was great despite being flawed in areas. William being the mc was nice because so many souls like go the create a character route and I'm sick of it. Linear mission were nice too. Now its dime a dozen open world. Joy.....fucking hate this Elden Ring shit that's infecting games.
 
I've been playing through the Telltale Walking Dead games with my girlfriend when I'm not playing Dark Souls recently, and we just made it to Season 1 Episode 5. She usually plays cozy games (Stardew Valley, Date everything, etc.) so she hadn't ever watched anything about the game. It's hilarious watching her reactions to the choices, and I liken it to playing a horror game with someone and you know where all the jump scares are. I really enjoy the fact that even though Lee is a badass, he still ends up bitten. It really shows that nobody is safe and keeps from seeming like a writers Mary Sue.
 
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What framerate was the game running at? I had issues with climbing until I limited it to 120fps.
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No clue, but it's highly probable that it's an unlimited max FPS as I've read others encountering the same problem. I tried to turn vsync on and to limit max FPS to 60 but the nvidia control panel denies changing the settings. That was two days ago, anyway.
I updated my nvidia drivers and now I can change the settings, so maybe it'll have fixed it now. Weird.
Spit bucket said:
Now its dime a dozen open world. Joy.....fucking hate this Elden Ring shit that's infecting games.
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That's one of my problems with "modern gaming". Everything is open world and everything has crafting. Elden Ring's open world actually put me off the game, I don't think it's much fun to have to go do yet another mine for more materials, and go grab every single golden seed or w/e from the churches so I can upgrade my not!estus before trying a boss again.
Then translate that into another game, like Code Vein 2 (which isn't a true sequel, it's more like a reboot? And everyone has yaoi (SFW) proportions (SFW) but I digress) which feels like it's literally copied everything from Elden Ring and just changed the characters to be hot animu men and women?
Or Animal Crossing New Horizon where your tools have durability, even the golden tools that actually take a bit of effort to make, and everything is crafted rather than an NPC changing it for you. Animal Crossing didn't need more inventory management than it originally had.
Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild was a mistake because it popularised gliders and durability on weapons. Yeah, Dark Souls had durability too, games like WoW has durability as well but BoW's durability mechanic is aggravating. I'm sure Tears of the Kingdom doesn't fix those issues, either. It's just more of the same.

I yearn for games to dare to be self-contained in a small but interesting world. I am tired of open world games that feel shallow and dead, because everything has to be so VAST and "realistic".
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time was pretty big for a game of its age and almost all of the areas felt alive without feeling too massive or too small. I don't need a precise 1:1 scale of a world in game vs how big it might be described in a book for example.
It makes sense that you can't literally have a city full of however many thousands of people who would realistically, lorewise live there because it'd break your game having to load 80k NPCs.
 
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The Talos Principle (2 I think?). Kind of reminds me of Portal, except that the puzzles are actually solvable (Portal legit made me concerned that I might have an intellectual disability). So far I haven’t really kept up with the story but the puzzles are a lot of fun
 
PetiteFeet said:
Trying to play Darksiders 2 Deathinitive edition, but it seems it's a buggy mess. I can't even get through the tutorial, I'm stuck trying to climb a wall.
FFS I thought remasters were supposed to be superior versions of any given game but this is just ass. And what are the differences, you ask? Oh I guess they fixed enemy auto lock on so you don't have to spam dodge.
Not only is this game uglier than what my PS3 version on a 55" sony tv from 2010, it's overall a deathinitively WORSE experience.

I'll figure it out tomorrow.
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I remember being shocked how poorly Deathinitive edition ran on PS4. There was always a point about halfway through the game it would just crash and I could never get past it. The first games remaster went so well too.
Spit bucket said:
Now its dime a dozen open world. Joy.....fucking hate this Elden Ring shit that's infecting games.
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Just started Nioh 3 demo and almost turned it off right after the tutorial. It did that stupid thing every open world game does nowadays. You start in a sectioned off, overly long tutorial area and then you either climb a hill or run out of a forest and the title pops up showing a vista of the open world. I remember thinking that was a cool moment in Fallout 3 but now it's just a warning sign screaming "big open space filled with meaningless shit that'll take you twice as long to beat as it should."
 
Spit bucket said:
Did everything in the demo for Nioh 3. I legit hate the direction Nioh went in. There's just so much shit in it that doesn't need to be there. Souls cores, different fighting styles, more bloat mechanics. Nioh 1 was great despite being flawed in areas. William being the mc was nice because so many souls like go the create a character route and I'm sick of it. Linear mission were nice too. Now its dime a dozen open world. Joy.....fucking hate this Elden Ring shit that's infecting games.
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I'd blame BOTW and nintendo before blaming Fromsoft. Their success with BOTW is largely what caused this modern hollow open world gaming mess. Even now most people treat it like a sacred cow, but thankfully TOTK being a copy-paste job of it that people waited 6 years for woke some people up to the flaws of it all. When Zelda inspired Dark Souls, can you really say that Elden Ring would exist as it does if Zelda didn't go open world slop first? Nah, Fromsoft saw that nasty gravy train, as so many others have, and copied that shit.
 
Mewgenics and occasionally breaking it up with a little Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator. Both are a good time.
 
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Also. I went down the rabbit hole that is dilbert 3 and it's song robocop.mp3 lead me to playing the gameboy robocop game the song came from.
 
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I don’t know when I last played Fallout 4, but I know it’s been years. I did beat it though when I did. That being said I’ve picked it back up after loading it up with >900 mods, no exaggeration, and I’m enjoying playing. Still can’t bring myself to give a shit about any of the main questlines, but having fun just going to locations and doing the smaller dungeon quests until I get leveled enough to start doing all the DLCs that I never played back when they were new.
 
JamFlowMan said:
I remember being shocked how poorly Deathinitive edition ran on PS4. There was always a point about halfway through the game it would just crash and I could never get past it. The first games remaster went so well too.
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Yeah Warmastered was so good, I didn't need to change any settings or fix something myself, and visually there were a lot of upgrades. It was crisper looking.
Then I started up Deathinitive and I couldn't even get through the tutorial because I didn't think to limit max FPS or turn vsync on in the nvidia control panel before playing.
I've read a few stories about the game crashing at a specific point if you're above level 18 and now I'm kind of worried. I got the game to play just fine and have been enjoying it but frankly, I'm shocked at how ugly the game looks on my small PC monitor compared to the original game on my PS3 on an old sony flatscreen tv from 2010. I'm equally shocked at the lack of in-game video settings. We're not talking about some ancient PC game from the beforetimes, Darksiders 2 is from 2012 and the Deathinitive remaster is from 2015.
I know purists will say Dark Souls remastered is inferior to the original release, but I don't think it outright makes the game a worse experience, unlike this particular remaster.
 
Booted up Mount and Blade. I danced around the series, had trouble launching in it. I mostly fooled with Viking Conquest and would hit an agonizing plateau, fascinating as it is. I booted With Fire and Sword, thinking myself Man That Would Like Early Modern Eastern Europe, but I just bounced and went back to Viking Conquest. I'd boot up default Warband and not be able to invest in Calradia's bullshit low fantasy setting. I'd boot up Medieval Conquest and not be able to invest in its ugly ass featureless map.

I actually installed Anno Domini 1257 this time. I'm still finding this experience kind of empty so far, similar to if Sid Meier's Pirates! had the tactilely satisfying duels and ship controls and dances ripped out, but at least the map doesn't look like ass and now I can invest because even if I don't want what the fuck at Jotvingian is I can still situate it in something real. Wish the game actually let you pick where to spawn. It made my Irish mercenary Hawke Tuagh be spawned deep in Halych-Volhynia... Now I'm trying to get the Teutonic Knights to give me work so I can LARP the Northern Crusades. This game is such cheap turkjank.
 
Jerri's Kid said:
Sleeping Dogs, though I've also been playing some retro games like Contra and R-Type. I also tried that Terminator 2D game and it's fun. It could have used some voice clips from the film to make a stronger impression, though, since I can still remember what the ones from the T2 arcade rail shooter sound like.
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Go play Contra: Hard Corps. It is considered the pinnacle of Contra.
 
Me and a buddy have been doing a Co-op run of Dark Souls 3. It could just be where I'm on a last gen console, but I never get a consistent frame rate with this game. Its never single digits or probably even very far under 30, but I've been used to having consistent frames in the other games and it's really pissing me off my rolls seem slightly delayed. Makes parrying have even tighter time windows. My friend is essentially doing a glorified escort mission. He's on a NG+7 character with a copy of every boss weapon, but he's limited to the amount of health I have so he's essentially glass cannon build. I really doubt I'll play this one on my own after we clear the game and it's DLC.
 
Escape from Ever After for me. An indie RPG game which has action commands if you're familiar with Paper Mario. I've also been playing Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, but haven't in a while.
 
Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is a game that makes me feel like Bossman Jack and a suicidal /biz/ autist who just lost everything speculating on shitcoin, and I highly recommend watching some gamba while you play it for maximum kino.

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    Aside from some of my usual foidslop and whatnot, I'm having trouble deciding on my next "main" game. I just did a big ol' run of Tainted Grail, and it was amazing. Devs are doing another big update in the next few weeks, which hopefully patches up a lot of issues with Act 3. Apparently, there's gonna be another free DLC, too. It's a really worthwhile game if you like Bethesda RPGs but want more slavjank.

    I'm kinda thinking System Shock remake, Metaphor (but I wanna finish Strange Journey so I'm not playing two Atlus RPGs at the same time), or Pacific Drive because I was very moved by this video by Noah Caldwell-Gervais (and I love games where you're just a dude truckin' it). When I started it sometime last year, I really enjoyed the game, but I ended up getting sucked into something else.


    /SPOILER]
 
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I got the urge to play CoD zombies the other day and decided on Cold War. The round based maps are hectic and unless you've got the map wonder weapon or you've already PaP a high damage AR the rounds after 14-15 get insanely packed with zombies.
There's also a mode called Outbreak where they reused maps from a multiplayer mode to have zombies maps the size of a battlefield conquest map. It's pretty satisfying and very chill to run around the zone and clear buildings and events. You unfortunately need to play LOTS of zombies to unlock the materials to level up your equipment and perks.
 
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